The Diablo III Website announces a new automatic patch is now available for Diablo III to update Blizzard's action/RPG sequel to version 1.0.3.b. This is for the Americas, and users are warned this will interfere with cross-region play until all territories are in sync. Here are the patch notes:

Auction House

Bug Fixes

The "Bid" and "Buyout" buttons will now be correctly grayed-out in the confirmation window when attempting to purchase an item with insufficient gold

Bug Fixes

General

Fixed a bug where leaving a heavily-populated General chat channel would prevent players from rejoining any General chat channel until they logged out and logged back in

Fixed several tooltip-related bugs that were occurring when viewing items with 2 or more sockets in the auction house and profile pages

dj LiTh wrote on Jul 10, 2012, 15:15:Well i already made my money back from the cost of the game thru the RMAH, i got more use and fun out of the game than 99% of every other publishers titles. when the pvp arena's get introduced for even more value on my money spent....err gained? Hmmm free fun.

It's funny though, looking back on the game I ended up making fair chunk but I'd rather have more fun/longevity than a revenue opportunity or whatever. I'm not sure PvP will do much for the game unless they limit people from using AH purchased items. As for how it measures to other pubs games well, the whole point of the Blizzard mantle was how far above other competitors they were. This was the first Blizzard game where I felt like that wasn't the case. It was a solid game, certainly not the train wreck that some people make it out to be but it wasn't anything special either.